Nat Benchley will be reading from his grandfather's writings and discussing his life during a three-part summer performance series titled "Benchley, Behrman and Bishop" presented by the Worcester Historical Museum and American Classic Theatre.

And though his books have translated to more than $325 million at the domestic box office, Clancy ranks with the likes of Peter Benchley ("Jaws"), Thomas Berger ("Little Big Man"), John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick"), Norman Mailer ("The Naked and the Dead"), Kurt Vonnegut ("Slaughterhouse-Five"), Thomas McGuane ("Rancho Deluxe") and a few others with three books apiece.

After frightening an entire generation out of the ocean with ``Jaws,'' author and oceanographer Peter Benchley has created a new underwater terror - architeuthis dux or the great squid - the world's largest invertebrate.

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